If This Is “Fading”, by Emily Dickinson

If This Is “Fading”

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If this is “fading”

Oh let me immediately “fade”!

If this is “dying”

Bury me, in such a shroud of red!

If this is “sleep,”

On such a night

How proud to shut the eye!

Good Evening, gentle Fellow men!

Peacock presumes to die!

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115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord?

807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity

474 They put Us far apart— As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula— We signified “These see”—

693 Shells from the Coast mistaking— I cherished them for All— Happening in After Ages To entertain a Pearl—

XLII SURGEONS must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,—Life!

150 She died—this was the way she died… And when her breath was done Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun—

632 The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside—

393 Did Our Best Moment last— ‘Twould supersede the Heaven— A few—and they by Risk—procure— So this Sort—are not given—

I went to heaven,— ‘T was a small town, Lit with a ruby, Lathed with down. Stiller than the fields

113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—

676 Least Bee that brew— A Honey’s Weight Content Her smallest fraction hel… The Amber Quantity—

199 I’m “wife”'—I’ve finished that’— That other state’— I’m Czar’—I’m “Woman” now’— It’s safer so’—

547 I’ve seen a Dying Eye Run round and round a Room— In search of Something—as it seem… Then Cloudier become—

81 We should not mind so small a flow… Except it quiet bring Our little garden that we lost Back to the Lawn again.

A light exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period. When March is scarcely here A color stands abroad